Like a Dog

by Tara Jepsen

Book, 2017

Publication

City Lights Publishers (2017), 160 pages

Content and Summary Info

Bisexual Content: The main character (cisgender woman) has/has had romantic and/or sexual relationships with people of more than one gender.

Publisher's Summary: A skateboarder in her early thirties, Paloma is aimlessly winging it through life. She takes low-paying jobs, drinks neon-colored wine coolers in the park, and drives to the Central Valley to skate the empty swimming pools dotting the sun-blasted landscape. Paloma struggles to have a relationship with her brother Peter, whose opiate addiction makes that nearly impossible. Her own delusions about the nature of addiction help to keep the threat of Peter's death by overdose at a comfortable enough distance, and as he slides into a dangerous spiral, Paloma tries out the world of stand-up comedy, happier than she's ever been.


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